Improvement in fruit-ladders



O. PARKINSON.

Fruit-Ladder,

Patented Nv. 18, 1879.

' WITNESSE ATTORNEY S at or near the axle, as showvn.

HNI'I'EZD S'EEA'IES PATENT CFFICE,

CHARLES PARKINSON, OF UOLDWATEB,MICHIGAN.

IMPROVEIVIENT IN FRUIT-LA DD ERS.

Specification formngpart of Letters Patent N0. 221,857, dated Nowmber18, 1879; application filed September 20, 1879.

T0 all whom t my concern:

Be t known that I, CHARLES PARKINSON, of Goldwater, in the county ofBraneh a11d State of Miehigan, hax*e invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Fruit-Ladders and I do hereby deelare that the followingis a full, clear, and exact descrption of the construction and operationof the same, referenee beiug had to the annexed drawings, makirig a partof this speeification, and to the letters and figures of referencemarked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation of a side elevationshowingthe ladders raised, and Fig. 2 is a side elev'ation sl1owing theladders lowered. Fig. 3 is a perspeetive detail "iew.

My invention relates to a de"iee for gathering fruit from trees; and thenovelty eonsists in the construetion and arrangementof parts, as will bemore fully hereinafter set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

In earrying out my invention I employ two handles loosely eonneeted to arunning-gear, for convenient transportation, and carrying a platform,upon which baskets, &c., may be placed, or for other suitableconvenienee. Rigidly seeured to the axle is a framing, whieh at itsupper extremity carries, by a loose eonnec tion, a cross-frame, which atthe other extremity is removably secured to a 'raming hinged When in usethe last-named framing is vertieal and the other horizontal.

A ladder is seoured near its fooi; by pins or otherwise to the handles,the lower ends thereof forming legs for the vehiele. This ladder ispivoted abwe to the 'raming, and forms a support for the same, braeed asshown.

Deser1b1ug the device as in operatiie position, a platform is pivoted orhinged to the upper portion of the framing nearthe upper extremity ofthe vertieal frame, and serves either as a standing-place for theoperator, 01"

as a brace for an extension-ladder, as shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings.Eaeh standard or side of ths supplementary ladder is provided at itslower end With a jaw or other device, by which it is removably securedto any rang of the brace-ladder at will. In sucl1 oase the upper hingedplatform is secured by pins 0r 0therwise to the supplementary orextension lad der, and serves as a brace thereto.

To a step pivoted to the extension-ladder are seeured two hooks, whicheonnect with eyes or lugs upon a hand-ladder pivoted to the extensionladder, as shown.

It will be observed from the construction shown that the entre devicemay be folded to gether, so as to be compact for storage ortransportation.

Referring to the drawings, A represents the running-gear; a, theliandles, and at the plat form thereon. Seeured to the axle at a is aframing, B, to which is pvoted at b a ladder, 0, said ladder beingseeured to the handles a at 0, as shown, the lower ends thereof servingas legs to the running portion or base of the device.

Pimted or hinged at d to the framing B is a horizontal frame, D, whichat the other extremity is remo"ably eonneeted to a frame, E, by alook-bolt, d. eration, is vertieal, and is hinged at 0 near the axle.Hinged or pivoted at f to the frame D is a platform-brace, F, whicl1,when horizontal, serves as a standing-place for the operator in 10Wtrees, and as a brace for a supple mental or extension ladder, as sl1ownin Fig. 1.

G represents the supplementzil er extension ladder, having hiuged stepG, carrying hooks g, adapted t0 engage in eyes or lugs h en ahand-ladder, H, pivoted at h to the ladder G. The lower ends of thestandards of the ladder G are jawed, or otherwise profided With meansfor en gagin g with the run gs of the ladder 0, and may be placed at anydesred heigl1t upon said ladder 0.

The seat or step G is eonneeted to the lad der G by braces 0, pivoted at12 to cleats upon the onder side of the step G, and to the sides of theladder G at q. Tl1e forward ends of the eleats, the upper ends of thesides of the platform F,and the upper ends of the sides of the ladder Gare perforated, and a rod, S, run througl1 them to secure them together.This rod S needs to be removed when it becomes necessary to employ thecombined ladders G and H as a hand-ladder.

lhe frame E, whe11 in op- The horizoutal framng B being detaehed fromthe 'ramng E, the whole may be readly '0lded in compact; form, as isobvious.

Whatl claim. and desre t0 secure by Letters Patent of the Unted States,is

1. The eombination. with a running-gear, A a a, of the framingB,hngedladderC, hnged frame D d, standard-frame E, amd platform I, as and forthe purposes se'o forth.

2. The hinged platform F, eonstructed and adapted 1:0 serve relatixelyto the framing B D E and ladder 0, and to a supplemental ladder, G, asset: forth.

3. The extenson-Iadder Gr, having pivoted seat G and jaws 0r elamps, asshown, eom bined with the ladder0 and plajcform-braee I, as set 'orth.

4. The combnation of the framiug B D E, ladder 0, extenson-ladder Gr G,platformbraee F, and handladder H, as and for the purposes setforth.

In testmony that I claim the ubove 1 have hereunto subserbed my name inthe presence of two wtnesses.

CHARLES PARKINSQN.

Wtnesses A. J. VICGOWAN; I. E. BELLAMY.

